THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: What is the best thing a school can give its students? No doubt, it is to prepare them to think innovatively. St Mary

As part of its capacity building efforts, ENERGIA held a regional training of trainers and practitioners on gender mainstreaming in energy projects. The training was held in October 2007 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keeping its word on reducing the waste heaps at Vilappilsala treatment plant, the Corporation has decided to set up biogas plants in major markets in the city. The step is as part of the decentralisation of waste treatment, which is one of the main focus areas of the final-year programmes envisaged by the present Council.

In Punjab, thousands of family-size biogas plants are satisfactorily functioning for the last two decades with 5-10 cattle heads. PAU (Punjab Agricultural University) has designed biogas plants of various capacities to cover different sizes of dairies.

India has a very huge potential of tree-born non-edible oil seeds. The country is endowed with more than 100 species of these oil seeds, occuring in the wild or cultivated sporadically to yield oil in considerable quantities. Attempts are being made to utilize non-edible and under-exploited oils for biodiesel production.

Mumbai Cowdung and kitchen wastes will turn into cooking gas everyday at the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Hospital, which has installed a biogas plant on its Lower Parel premises.

The organic conversion will involve no extra energy or electricity. What

As implausible as it sounds, cattle poop can generate the electric power to light up thousands of households in Punjab, which has a livestock population of five and a half million buffalos and 1.2 million cows.

Government said yesterday said that an additional 500 mega watts will be added to the national grid within the next two years. Non conventional power generating sources will be utilized for this purpose. This will be done utilizing wind power Dendron and Bio gas projects.

Coimbatore, Aug. 28 The Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) is in talks with the sago units in the Namakkal and Rasipuram belt for helping them install biogas plants, TEDA Chairman and Managing Director, Mr R. C. Gandhi, said.

Ministry of Environment (MoE) and Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) on Thursday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth Rs 2,801 million to facilitate implementation Domestic Biogas Programme. Director General Environment Javed Ali Khan signed the MoU document on behalf of the Ministry and Ms Shandana Khan Chief Executive Officer of RSPN respectively.

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